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For peat's sake, stop the palm oil madness
It's not a 'sustainable' biofuel |
Joseph Romm |
31 Jul 2007 |
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| So Europeans are buying Indonesian palm oil as a 'sustainable' biofuel, but it isn't sustainable, as we've noted before. The tragedy continues: Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's Riau province, despite government pledges to end forest fires ... Blazes have started flaring again since the end of June with the start of the dry season. How a big deal is this? As The New York Times put it earlier ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, logging (all these topics) |
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